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For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings designated in this section. The word "used" includes "designed, intended or arranged to be used."
Abode means the principal, nonwater-dependent use of a structure or vessel as a dwelling or home.
Anchoring means to secure a vessel temporarily to the bottom of a water body by dropping an anchor or anchors or other ground tackle from a vessel.
Channel means any water areas that are federally maintained and reserved for unobstructed movement of vessels.
Commercial mooring means the rental, lease, management, maintenance and/or operation of a mooring for an amount in excess of or in addition to the municipal mooring permit fee or for purposes other than private use.
Commission means the harbor management commission.
Department means the department of parks and recreation.
Director means the director of parks and recreation.
Fairway means any locally designated and/or maintained water areas reserved for unobstructed movement of vessels.
Harbor management commission means the commission established or designated in accordance with this chapter to carry out responsibilities associated with the development, oversight and administration of municipal harbor programs.
Harbormaster means an official appointed in accordance with this chapter to carry out the provisions of this chapter. There shall be a chief harbormaster who is responsible for the supervision and direction of all other harbormasters.
Houseboat and floating home mean a building constructed on a raft, barge or hull that is used primarily for single-family habitation. Houseboats may only be anchored in a permitted marina. Discharge of sanitary waste from houseboats into the waters of the city is prohibited.
Immediate family means husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild or stepchild, except in federally maintained mooring areas where immediate family means spouse only.
Moor means to permanently secure a vessel to the bottom of a water body by the use of mooring tackle.
Mooring means a place where buoyant vessels are secured to the bottom of a water body by mooring tackle in accordance with this chapter and which has received a permit from the municipality.
Mooring area means any area designated in the harbor management plan for the location of moorings, except Mooring Area Number Two in Warwick Cove, which is 75 feet to the north of its location as established by the 1989 plan.
Mooring tackle means the hardware used to secure a vessel at a mooring and which is kept in place seasonally.
Private mooring means any mooring registered to an individual and used exclusively for his/her recreational purposes.
Resident means any person whose legal residence or place of principal operation is the city.
Transient anchorage means any area reserved and designated on the 1989 harbor management plan, as amended from time to time, for the exclusive shortterm use of commercial and recreational vessels and any vessels seeking emergency shelter.
Transient mooring (commercial) means a mooring reserved and designated by a commercial mooring operator for shortterm use by a person who does not typically lease from the commercial mooring operator.
Vessel means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. Specifically excluded by this definition are floating homes or houseboats.
Wake means a wave generated by a vessel.
(Code 1971, § 9-3; Ord. No. O-96-27, § I, 11-12-96; Ord. No. O-99-17, § I, 4-12-99; Ord. No. O-99-48, § I, 9-27-99)
Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.